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I have only 3 more pre-reqs to complete before I can start a BSN program here. The requirement is a 2.75. My question is....because of my low gpa, should I give up nursing and try something like HIT? Nurses are deemed as "smart" people. I believe that I am smart but I just haven't found a studying technique that fits my learning style. I know that's going to affect me in any field that I decide to get into so I am trying to work on my study habits. I don't know what to do. Most nursing student have at least a 3.2 gpa. I feel like such a failure. I think I should try something different.

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I would set up appointments with nursing advisors at local colleges. Ask the advisors what is needed to get in their respective programs.

If you have to retake some classes, do it. Nursing committees usually look at the most recent grade.

With my first degree, I had a terrible GPA. I think my blood alcohol content was higher than my GPA. But years later, when I set my sights on nursing, I worked my tail off and got all A's in the prereq courses.

What type of learner are you? Do you learn best from lectures? If so, record the lectures and listen to the lectures over and over again.

If you are more of visual learner, still record the lectures but use these recordings to fill in the holes in your notes. What I did is rewrite my notes over and over again.

What I have also found is that 99% of test questions come from lecture and not the text. So, go to class 100% of the time, record the lectures and go over the material multiple times.

You can do it.

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Specializes in Pediatric Intensive Care, Urgent Care.

A GPA that low doesn't mean you shouldn't be a nurse!! Of course not! BUT, i'm not going to paint a rosy picture for you...i'm gonna give it to you straight, it DOES mean that you probably will not be a nurse. Nursing programs are highly competive...unless your fortunate enough to live somewhere that doesn't have a nursing shortage and because of this their nursing programs have only moderate interest. Even private schools don't admit students with GPAs that low so if you really really want it then buckle down and make it happen!! Find a way to bring that GPA up!!

Mex

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Specializes in Me Surge.

Get out. Not because of your GPA, you can always bring that up. But because you said you don't like to study. If you don't like to study or lack the discipline to study nursing school is not an option.

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The only person that can answer that question is you. If you are serious in becoming a nurse you would buckle down on studying. Yet, if you are having problems with certain subjects ask for help. Form a study group, and/or ask your nursing tutor.

There are ways of improving your knowledge and/or skills if you want.

Do you truly wish to be a nurse? If so, you already know what the qualifications are. Do you feel you can meet the expectations?

Only you know what you are capable of. I wish you luck.

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Specializes in Family Practice, Primary Care.

I am going to be honest here: After my first three semesters at a 4 year private college in Boston, I had a 2.58. Why? Because I didn't care. When I transferred and majored in something I LIKED, I ended up with a 3.8.

If you just don't like anatomy etc and that is why you have a GPA that low, I would consider a different field to go into. I couldn't get enough of studying my anatomy and physiology notes, and I read my textbook on my own from cover to cover 3 weeks after my A&P I class started. I truly love that kind of stuff.

If you don't, get out, before you make yourself and everyone else around you miserable.

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I just wanted to thank many of you for yor positive and uplifting comments. I also wanted to note:

1. Like many others, I haven't found the best studying technique that fits my learning style. However, my studying habits are continually improving.

2. Because of the overwhelming positive comments and my determination to succeed, I AM GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL NURSE!!!

Again, thanks to many of you for your kind words. :thankya:

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Specializes in Peri-op/Sub-Acute ANP.

You say you don't like to study but you don't expand on that. Do you not like to study EVERYTHING, or are there some things that you do like to study and find easier. Try to analyse what is going on here a little bit even if it means writing things down on a sheet of what you struggle with and what you don't struggle so much with.

I know there were subjects that I really disliked at school, and although I did well in them it was much harder for me to be motivated to do well in them and I tended to put off doing the work for as long as I could and then try to cram.

I think to be in nursing school and be successful, you probably have to be enormously curious about the human body/condition and enjoy learning about how it works and why it sometimes stops working. If you don't enjoy doing this then NS will be miserable for you. Now if you are struggling to study history, geography, etc., and all the other stuff they make you you go through before you get to NS school, then you are just going to have to suck this up and get through it the best way you can and look at NS as the reward for doing so!

Whether or not you continue along the path to becoming a nurse, or you decide to do something else is going to take a lot of self-analysis and instrospection.

Whatever you decide, I wish you luck.

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Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.
I just wanted to thank many of you for yor positive and uplifting comments. I also wanted to note:

1. Like many others, I haven't found the best studying technique that fits my learning style. However, my studying habits are continually improving.

2. Because of the overwhelming positive comments and my determination to succeed, I AM GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL NURSE!!!

Again, thanks to many of you for your kind words. :thankya:

Well I'm glad to hear it! Please keep us posted on how you are doing and what path you take on becoming a nurse-how you are getting there ok? ;)

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Do not get discouraged. :nono: Just focus on your last 2 classes and if u can retake a class u got a low grade in. It should be easier the second time around right. If this is what you really want then you'll find a way to have it. I know I did. Good Luck!

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Hi,

My A & P instructor had us do an assignment that was meant to help us identify our learning style. Maybe it would be helpful to you. If you look up VARK learning styles, you will get to the site.

Once you get an idea of your learning style, it offers ideas to help you study. I learn best by rewriting and rereading and I use different colored highlighters with my notes that seems to help me when I study.

I just saw a news segment recently that said that listening to music helps you study by drowning out the "white noise" and so I tried that. I listened to soft/classical type music & ya know what, I think it works. And to think, I used to tell my kids to turn their music off.

Another thing that I am convinced works, sitting in the same seat in class. Sometimes, I have to close my eyes and try to literally remember the writing on the board. The instructor in my first college class (after 20 yrs out of school) told me this and I clung to the hope that it would help & so far I have been pretty successful. It may sound silly, but sometimes I can actually remember seeing the example that was written on the left side of the board--the one that I had to look over the overhead projector to see. I also chew gum when I study and when I am testing- helps to keep me focused & calm.

Good luck-don't give up on your dream until you have exhausted every possibility.

Vicki

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The 3 prereqs you have, just try as hard as you can to get all As. Try changing some of you strategies, and evaluate how you can improve your grades. Hopefully, your gpa would go up. My GPA was low 10 years ago. I retook 7 courses and had As and B+s and all. If I can do it, so can you. English is not my first language, so it was difficult for me at first. Dont ever give up on your dream to become a nurse. Just remember, determination is key to success.

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